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Pasindu Withanage retweeted
When you’re whole-heartedly, genuinely, completely, obsessively, excitedly consumed by something:
It’s infectious.
People want to be around you, even if they don’t share your obsession.
People root for you, because we love seeing that thrive.
Fly that freak flag.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
Honestly this is sort of unsettling to watch.
From a YouTuber who is doing experiments with AI-powered NPCs in VR: five historical figures are on a train, only the YouTuber is human, the others are LLMs. Watch the LLMs figure out who is the dumb human. youtu.be/MxTWLm9vT_o?si=pAiI…
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump says "I will ensure that the future of crypto and #Bitcoin will be made in the USA…I will support the right to self custody to the nations 50 million crypto holders."
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
the GPT store is live!
openai.com/blog/introducing-…
fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
More people should copy Yeti's playbook. It's clearly proven:
Find a boring, ignored product & offer something 3x higher quality for 10x the price.
$50 tumblers are fine. Why not a $500 one? We use them daily & the market is massive.
Do this with:
Tool kits
Grill tools
Umbrellas
Flashlights
Camp chairs
10x10’ pop-up canopies
$200 fishing poles instead of $20 disposable ones
One problem is that Yeti is already trying to do this with many of the products above.
But they won’t be known for it. They’re known for amazing coolers. They're private equity now.
Their private equity is your opportunity.
Many DTC brands are half-heartedly trying this by simply selling expensive commodities on a nice website, but you have to nail the quality in the marketing.
Someone needs to be known for amazing $300 camp chairs that last a lifetime.
If I were doing this I'd listen to every podcast and read every article from the Yeti founders, and scour their original website on the web archive.
It used to be yeticoolers . com and looked like the below.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
🤣 Jokes aside, PDFs contain some of the most useful knowledge out there. We learn a lot about this from the Galactica LLM research.
Anyone who can build AI systems that process and answer questions reliably around PDFs is worth following closely. It's not an easy problem.
Based on my research, most of the LLM solutions today are terrible at analyzing PDFs as they contain all kinds of complex information like nested tables, figures, equations, images, and many other things that are not easy to deal with.
Just try any of the notable LLMs today and you will see what I mean. A ton of hallucinations like you have never seen before and a lot of errors. We @dair_ai are doing deep research around this domain and will be publishing some findings and developments around this, specifically aligned with scientific and educational information.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
Principled Instructions for LLMs
Nice set of guiding principles to improve and enhance the quality and reliability of LLM responses.
Shows the effectiveness of the principled instructions and prompt designs across model sizes and scenarios.
Tested on Llama 1/2 (7B, 13B, and 70B) and GPT-3.5/4. (see examples in the figure)
It's well known that prompt optimization can lead to significant performance gains. If you are building or researching with LLMs, this is a great read.
arxiv.org/abs/2312.16171v1
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
Midjourney version 1 was released in February 2022.
This is what it looked like.
A comparison from v1 to v6🧵
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
As AI image creation gets better and easier, their ability to create fakes that can seem realistic improves as well.
By way of demonstration, here are the cellphone photos documenting the Hello Kitty invasion of the US, as visualized by Midjourney 6.0.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
Midjourney version 6 was released two hours ago, and it's incredible.
I compared it to the previous version 5.2 across 15 very different image categories.
Here are the results:
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
True AGI means everything in tech will be easily copyable. Tech becomes a commodity as profits are competed away, including for AI itself.
As the price of labor goes towards zero, the world demands a lot more stuff, and the constraining factor becomes real things like materials, energy, and real estate. That's where the opportunity is.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
Weird to have a product that is increasingly core to serious use cases in business & education talk in riddles and emoji
But I guess that is why the Microsoft partnership exists. OpenAI gets to be the move-fast startup & Microsoft gets to package it for conservative enterprises
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
There are so many amazing #web3 projects being built. The next 12 months are going to be insane.
Pasindu Withanage retweeted
#1 Productivity hack,
Hide the damn phone. Productivity killer!